Cold Calls examines telemarketers’ scripts and how we react to this mental invasion.

Hide Here

Assemblage with Poem, 18" x 18" x 24", 2004

Privacy is compromised in a society that values surveillance.

Go-Stay-Go

Etching Collages, Series of 16, Varying sizes, 2014

This series considers our ambivalence between exploring the world and retreating to our homes. "In a timefrozen cycle of dawn-to-dusk never-ending busywork, she methodically dusts and regroups her many objects. Then she goes online and buys more objects that do not yet have dust on them to ensure the distraction and comfort that industry brings."

Fear Beds

Etching Collages on Cloth, 3 in series, 6' x 4' each, 1999.

Our beds are supposed to function as the safest place we can imagine. But when we are in bed, we must also face loneliness, illness, and nocturnal fears.

This piece quotes a manly man who cannot find one of his tools, referring to the complications of owning a multitude of objects. "Where's my *+#%@%^$ 8 millimeter cross-slotted rotary drill?"

Almost

Assemblage, 8" x 20", 2012

A woman is frustrated with the complexities of finding her soulmate.

Game of Telephone

Etching Collages, Series of 12, 18" x 24" x 10", 2003

My assertion here is that corporate media serves the rich and powerful, restricting access to authentic expression. In this series, I use the child's game of Telephone as a metaphor for the distortions and omissions we are are currently experiencing in mass media. The big boys are holding hands - the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdock, Viacom and AOL Time Warner.
I built this series as a waving hand in front of your television, your newspaper, your town square - to break the trance and provide a distraction from the Orwellian moment when all channels' sound bites harmoniously chorus their warped half-truths. Text excerpt:
1. Darth told Brit to "get some spine", so Brit turned to Sophie, pushing her to "stay supine", and Sophie heard "taste what you find".
2. Here in our village of unholy remorse, we reward indulgers and snarl at the methodically disciplined. We will let you host a T.V. show if you accept a famous cigar, even if you stand mute and raw after the experience. We will give you a book deal if you cheat stockholders or whomp off a penis in anger, even if you are adjectively challenged. But mostly, rule followers must hold their boredom in their throats, saving their applause for the wicked.

Contented Women

Collages, 56" x 36", Wall and Scrapbook Formats, 2002.

This series investigates the notion of contentment. Can we feel truly contented in this Age of Information? Can we ever feel satiated? Can we ever catch up?

Shelf Life Doll Boxes

Etching Collages with Beads/Found, 39" x 17", Series of 10, 2000.

Ten people view the same product in different ways. The rich woman sees the dolls as a commodity, the child sees the dolls as real, the guard sees the dolls as inventory.

An Achieved Friend

Assemblage, 15" x 16", 2011.

This quote by Jane Howard in A Peck of Salt defines friendship as I experienced it once in my life.

O-Babe

Drawing Collage, 34" x 26", Series of 10, 1998.

The Mass Of Our Bodies

Etching Collages, 10" x 24", 2012

"In droves, we made a pilgrimage to her chewy-fresh wooden art frames. It was the Great Massacre of 1989. Millions of us were brutally vacuumed out of our newfound homes. Another settlement lost. Ironically, the mass of our bodies would have helped to unify her composition."